India's gold medal tally reached twenty four today with Yogeshwar Dutt beating Canada's James Mancini in the finals of 60 kg freestyle wrestling and Narsingh Pancham Yadav defeated Richard Brian Addinall of South Africa in 74 kg freestyle wrestling. With this India crosses Melbourne Commonwealth
of 22 Gold medals.
Earlier in the day, India's ace shooter Gagan Narang bagged a fourth gold for India in the Singles 50 m Rifle 3 Positions (Men) event at the Karni Singh Shooting Ranges in New Delhi on Saturday. With this, India's tally of gold medals has reached 22 in the ongoing Commonwealth Games. Earlier in the day, Harpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar won gold in men's 25-metre centre fire pistol pairs event.
India made its mark in the Games' showpiece event, athletics, with Harminder Singh securing the bronze in the men's 20km walk, adding to Kavita Raut's Friday's historic-feat of winning the bronze in the gruelling women's 10,000 metres.
Kavita is the first Indian woman to win an individual medal from the track event in the Commonwealth Games.
The good showing in athletics and shooting notwithstanding, India slipped to third place in the overall medal count (as at 1300 hours IST) after being in the second position for five days.
India has 21 gold, 16 silver and 14 bronze. Though England also has 21 gold, it surged ahead to the second spot with more silver and bronze than India.
CWG: India wins six golds on day 5
New Delhi: In what turned out to be another big harvest, India on Friday culled an impressive tally of 14 medals, including six gold and a rare women's athletics bronze in track events, to remain well on course in their aim to eventually finish second at the Commonwealth Games.
To add lustre to the gold, the country bagged five silver and three bronze medals too, leading them to an overall five-day medal heist of 20 gold, 16 silver and 12 bronze medals.
Gold medals were won by shooters (3), woman wrestlers (2) and the women's recurve archery team to help India end the day glued firmly in second place behind Australia whose haul read a seemingly unassailable 47-24-27.
India were also just two behind their second-best tally of gold in the Games history, 22 four years ago at Melbourne.
The haul is also ten short of equalling their best of 30 at Manchester in 2002 when each class of weightlifting awarded three gold medals, a practice that has been discontinued since then.
England were breathing down the host nation's neck with 18 gold under their belt. They have also won 35 silver and 17 bronze. Canada, with 14 gold, 5 silver and 20 bronze were in fourth spot.
The race for finishing No. 2 in the Games has effectively become a three-horse race between India, England and Canada.
World rifle shooting champion Gagan Narang plucked his third gold medal at the Dr Karni Singh archery range by winning the 50m 3-position pairs event while pistol experts Vijay Kumar and Omkar Singh became the champions in 25m rapid fire and 10m air pistol events respectively.
Not to be outdone by the men, the country's women competitors chipped in with their share of the yellow metal with the recurve team of Dola Banerjee, Bombayala Devi and Deepika Kumari opened the gold medal account at the archery range.
Later Women grapplers Alka Tomar (59kg freestyle) and Anita (67 kg freestyle) fought their way gold medals in grand style and stole some of the limelight away from the all-conquering shooters.
Long distance runner Kavita Raut also made history by becoming the first athlete to bag a medal, bronze, in women's track events in the Games history when she finished third behind Kenya's Grace Kwamboka Momanti and Doris Changeywo, clocking 33:05.28 in the 10,000m.
It was also the country's tenth medal in track and field events since 1958 when 'Flying Sikh' Milkha Singh bagged India's lone gold medal at the Cardiff Games.
The day began with shooting star Gagan Narang claiming his third gold medal, with partner Imran Hasan Khan by winning the men's 50m rifle 3-position pairs event with Imran Hasan Khan and pistol shooter Vijay Kumar claimed the 25m rapid fire individual gold.
Late in the day Omkar Singh clinched the 10m air postol individual title, the tenth gold garnered by India from the Dr Karni Singh range, after women archers and grapplers got into the gold-winning act.
The women's recurve team of Dola Banerjee, Bombayala Devi and Deepika Kumari opened the gold medal account at the archery range before women wrestlers Tomar and Anita helped keep India ahead of the fast-catching England with a double gold strike.
Seasoned trap shooting pair Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Mansher Singh got a silver in pairs trap event, pistol expert Vijay Kumar stood second in the 25m Rapid Fire event, and grappler Babita Kumari won another silver in the women's 51kg category.
India also won silver in the team event of women's table tennis and badminton and Ashish Kumar (artistic gymastics).
Bronze standards were attained by rifle shooter Gurpreet Singh, in the 25m individual competition, men's archery trio of Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar and Tarundeep Rai in the recurve competition and woman athlete Kavita Raut.
Rifle shooting ace Gagan Narang began India's gold quest by snapping up his third gold medal, and second in pairs, by winning the men's pairs 50m rifle 3-position event with Imran Hasan.
Narang, who had won the men's 10m air rifle pairs and individual gold medals going into Friday's competition, also set two Games records - a combined total of 2325 out of which his own contribution of 1167 was also a new championship mark.
The pair's shooting gold was the country's 16th after the trio of women archers fetched the country the first of the day.
Alka Tomar and youngster Anita won gold medals in their respective 59 kg and 67 kg freestyle categories to add to the maiden gold won by Geeta on Thursday.
While Alka outclassed Athens Olympic silver and Beijing Games bronze medallist Tonya Verbeek of Canada, Anita beat Megan Budyens of Canada winning the first two rounds on points. Anita won 4-0.
India got another medal courtesy Babita Kumari who lost her 51kg freestyle bout against Ifeoma Christi Nwoye of Nigeria by 4-6 margin. India thus finished with six medals, 3 gold, two silver and a bronze.
England count was 21 gold, 37 silver and 20 bronze. Australia remained on top with 48 gold, 26 silver and 28 bronze.
Harminder Singh finished third behind the Australian duo of Jarred Tallent and Luke Adams with a personal best of 1:23:28. The 26-year-old Harminder finished a minute and 10 seconds behind silver-medallist Adams. Tallent, a double-Olympic walk medallist in the Beijing Olympic Games, clinched the gold medal after trailing Adams till the last two kilometers in a new Games record of 1:22:18.
The Indian men's table tennis team salvaged a bronze beating Nigeria 3-0 in the third place play-off Saturday.
The hosts had little time to recover from Friday night's painful loss to England but came up with a convincing win over the gritty Nigerians at the Yamuna Sports Complex.
However, there was disappointment for India in the women's 20km walk. Rani Yadav finished sixth after clocking 1:42:54. Another Indian Sandhya Jolly came eighth in 1:51:44, while Deepmala Devi failed to finish the race.
England's Jo Jackson grabbed the gold medal in by clocking 1:34:22, while Australia Claire Tallent, wife of men's gold winner Jared, settled for the silver in 1:36:55. Kenya's Wanjiru Grace took the bronze in 1:37:49.
All eyes are on tennis star Sania Miraza and shooting champion Gagan Narang as they vie for gold later Saturday in their events. Sania faces Australia's Anastasia Rodionova in the women's singles final.
Gagan and compatriot Imran Hasan will be seen in action in the Singles 50-metre Rifle 3 Positions (Men).
Other shooters featuring on Saturday are Vijay Kumar and Harpreet Singh in the Pairs 25-metre Pistol (Men) and Suma Siddharth Shirur and Kavitha Yadav in the Pairs 10-metre Air Rifle shooting event.
Wrestler Narsingh Yadav wins 24th CWG gold for India
NEW DELHI: India's gold tally swelled to 24 when wrestler Narsingh Yadav won gold in 74kg freestyle event soon after Yogeshwar Dutt won gold in 60kg freestyle at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Yogeshwar defeated Canada's James Mancini in the final.
The 27-year-old went for broke from the start with an aggression and verve for which an intimidated Mancini had no answer, shoving the Canadian to the floor twice and then pushing him out to close out the first session 3-1.
It was the same story in the second, with Dutt picking up another single then adding three more points to his tally after getting behind Mancini's knee and then shoving him out before rolling his opponent on the ground.
Earlier, shooter Gagan Narang picked up his fourth gold by winning the men's 50m rifle 3 position event.
Shooters Harpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar also won gold in 25-metre centre fire pistol pairs event to open the gold account on Day 6 of the Games.
India scored 1159 in the final to clinch gold.
Harminder Singh won a surprise bronze medal in men's 20 km walk event to give the country its second medal in athletics in the Games.
Harminder clocked 1:23.27s, better than his personal best of 1:24.23s, to finish third behind Australians Jared Talent (1:22.18s), who won bronze in 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Luke Adams (1:22.31s) who was the silver medallist in 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
Yogeshwar defeated Canada's James Mancini in the final.
The 27-year-old went for broke from the start with an aggression and verve for which an intimidated Mancini had no answer, shoving the Canadian to the floor twice and then pushing him out to close out the first session 3-1.
It was the same story in the second, with Dutt picking up another single then adding three more points to his tally after getting behind Mancini's knee and then shoving him out before rolling his opponent on the ground.
Earlier, shooter Gagan Narang picked up his fourth gold by winning the men's 50m rifle 3 position event.
Shooters Harpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar also won gold in 25-metre centre fire pistol pairs event to open the gold account on Day 6 of the Games.
India scored 1159 in the final to clinch gold.
Harminder Singh won a surprise bronze medal in men's 20 km walk event to give the country its second medal in athletics in the Games.
Harminder clocked 1:23.27s, better than his personal best of 1:24.23s, to finish third behind Australians Jared Talent (1:22.18s), who won bronze in 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Luke Adams (1:22.31s) who was the silver medallist in 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
CWG: India surpasses Melbourne medal haul
New Delhi: India on Saturday surpassed its Melbourne Commonwealth Games medal tally of 50 with a haul of 54 medals at the ongoing Games.
With five more days to go for the conclusion of the Games, more medals are expected in its kitty.
As of 6.30pm on Saturday, India's medal count at the Delhi Games stood 24 gold, 16 silver and 14 bronze. In Melbourne the final tally was 22 gold, 17 silver and 11 bronze.
India was fourth in the overall medal count both at Melbourne 2006 and at the Manchester Games in 2002, behind Australia, England and Canada.
The Indian Shooters had brought in the maximum medals at Melbourne - 16 gold, seven silver and four bronze. This time they have already garnered 12 gold, 4 silver and two bronze medals.
| Country | G | S | B | Total |
| Australia | 51 | 28 | 30 | 109 |
| India | 24 | 17 | 15 | 56 |
| England | 23 | 39 | 25 | 87 |
| Canada | 16 | 8 | 20 | 44 |
| South Africa | 8 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 |
| Singapore | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| Kenya | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Scotland | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
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